Note: Please remember to only consider the range of
the species within the country of assessment.
The range of a species may be classified as wide-ranging or restricted
and/or rare. Each range type can impact on the effective size of
species’ populations and therefore it is important to understand how
species are distributed.
While wide-ranging species are often assumed to be common (and in many
instances they are), some species are distributed widely, but occur in
scattered, small populations (e.g., Aloe framesii, Aloe
kniphofioides in South Africa), and are thus “rare”. To disentangle
this information, the extent and rarity of species distributions are
asked separately.